도깨비 설화에 나타난‘몸’의 의미 - 주체와 타자의 새로운 관계를 위하여

Abstract

A body is the incarnation of a spirit and the body's action is the reflection of a spirit. Hence, it is self-evident that the body should be qualified as the subject to establish its ego identity. As we all know, most of western discourses, dealing with identities, are based on the projection of not 'us' but 'others' in logics. The 'otherness' is not accomplished merely in the area of history. It is a variety of ghosts and aliens very often appearing in movies or literary works that are the results of the othernesses positively or negatively projected by human beings. Most of aliens, gods and monsters are an evidence of disruption in the depth of a human mind. They reveal how we are disrupted between consciousness and unconsciousness, familiarity and unfamiliarity or the same and not the same. This article addressed the others' bodies generated by the results of that disruption and proceeded to examine the body-discourse. Especially, we looked into "Tokkaebi“, projected and disrupted from the body, or the subject of human beings. Through the process, we also examined the body-discourse in our Tokkaebi-tale as a whole. In the case of Tokkaebi, the body is specified by the subject into the otherness throughout all the bodies. Tokkaebi is in the relation of a human body and Mimesis, occasionally exposes the double self by hiding himself and is sometimes related in the old otherness, the Femininity. In the process of that, we could discuss the body-discourse in different viewpoint, so far mentioned in the discourse of modernity or the discourse of subject.